Former US ambassador to Burkina Faso and Ethiopia

Dr. David Shinn is Adjunct Professor of International Affairs at The Elliot School of International Affairs, and former US ambassador to Burkina Faso and Ethiopia.. He served for thirty-seven years in the US Foreign Service with assignments at embassies in Lebanon, Kenya, Tanzania, Mauritania, Cameroon, and Sudan.

Former Director General of the European Commission

Emilio Rui Vilar is a former Portuguese politician and Director General of the European Commission. He currently serves as the chairman of the Audit Commission of Banco de Portugal, and the president of the Board of Trustees of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

Enrique Iglesias took office as the first Secretary-General of the Ibero-American Cooperation Secretariat (SECIB) on October 1st, 2005, following his election by the Ibero-American Conference member-states in May.

Institute of International Studies (IDEI), Pontifical Catholic University of Peru

Fabian Novak is director of the Institute of International Studies (IDEI) at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima. He formerly served as Peru’s Vice-Minister of Defense Policies. Dr. Novak is a specialist on international economic law. He holds a doctorate in law (2009), a professional degree in law (1992) and a master’s degree (1997). Since 1992 he has served as head professor of public international law at the Pontifical Catholic University, and since February 2009, director of the Institute of International Studies.

Famile Arslan works as lawyer in The Hague for her own law firm called Arslan Lawyers. Her work is in the field of family law, immigration law, housing and labour and social insurance cases as penalty cases. She is the first lawyer in the Netherlands who wears a hijab.